Archive for June 22nd, 2013

Most of the teachers keep giving private tuition to students amid a government ban slapped a year ago on teachers not to give such commercial private tuition, which is widely blamed for the degradation of classroom teaching. Most of the guardians have for long been demanding that the government should stop teachers giving such commercial private tuition. The government has […]

Mayors of Narayanganj, Comilla and Rangpur have alleged that they were yet to start drawing monthly remunerations and fringe benefits as the government did not approve the remuneration structure. They also said that they were not even enjoying the status of state minister as there is a convention that the city mayors outside Dhaka are entitled to get the status […]

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has called upon people to remain alert about any conspiracy of the leader of the opposition against the nation after her return from Singapore. Recalling the ultimatum of the opposition leader after returning from Singapore last time, the prime minister said, ‘Last time she conspired to topple the government in Singapore. I don’t know what […]

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has rejected as ‘baseless’ the reports published in some national dailies that the party chairperson Khaleda Zia had had a meeting with Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad in Singapore recently. The party also denied the reports that Khaleda Zia had a meeting with her eldest son Tarique Rahman in Singapore. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir […]

Deputy Commissioners have recommended for allotting five per cent quota in government secondary school admission for the children of the government officers and employees. The cabinet division last month received the recommendations from some DCs and forwarded it to the ministry of education for its observations. A senior official of cabinet division told New Age that the issue is expected […]

The annual session of the senate of Jahangirnagar University was postponed on Friday in the face of protests from the teachers demanding the resignation of vice-chancellor Md Anwar Hossain. The senate session, where the university’s annual budget for 2013-14 financial year was supposed to be placed at 4:00pm, was postponed as the JU Teachers’ Associations laid siege to the administrative […]

A group of intellectuals on Friday expressed concern over provocative utterances and threats of the ‘people in power’ against the regular television talk-show guests which led to some untoward incidents recently. They said such threats and attacks on the talk-show guests were tantamount to a severe blow to the freedom of expression. In a joint statement, they urged the government […]

Voters in the newly-formed Gazipur city corporation area have said that apart from national issues, some local problems like traffic congestion, water-logging, supply of drinking water, gas connections and power outage would impact the polling. Elections to the Gazipur city corporation will be held on July 6. ‘Water-logging remains a major problem in the city. All roads and alleys go […]

Thirty Bangladeshis working in Mawaleh’s Sana area of Muscat have alleged that the company that hired them are not paying their salaries and giving air tickets to return home as it committed. They said they had a joint representation (meeting), and a decision in this regard was announced on December 2012 that they would get two years’ salaries, air tickets […]

About 2.23 lakh hectares of new land were affected by various degrees of salinity on the top soil of the country’s coastal region in last 36 years, according to the Soil Resource Development Institute. Regular withdrawal of fresh water at upstream, irregular rainfall, introduction of brackish water for shrimp cultivation, faulty management of sluice gates and polders, saline tidal water […]

A regional manager of BRAC Education Programme was stabbed to death on Wednesday while traveling on official duty from Juba to Yei in South Sudan. The victim was identified as Mohammed Habibur Rahman, 45, who served BRAC’s education programme in South Sudan for more than three years. Habib is survived by wife and a school going minor son. His wife […]

Bangladesh Railway is going to extend the time for conducting survey of all its land and preparing a plan for their use for the sixth time. The fifth extension of time for completing the task will expire on June 30, 2013 with 81 per cent of the work remaining incomplete, said BR officials. On June 3, 2007, BR and Sheltech […]

The government is going to rename the Bangladesh Military Museum as the Bangabandhu Military Museum, officials have said. The decision on the renaming and expansion of the Bangabandhu Military Museum had in principle been approved, according to officials in the Armed Forces Division. The country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is popularly called the Bangabandhu. Authorities will build a multi-storey […]

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has asked the government to immediately stop the ‘evil design’ to destroy the Grameen Bank changing the legal structure of the bank. In a statement on Friday, acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir asked the government to immediately stop the ‘nasty game’ over the Grammen Bank which he termed an institution that represented the […]

Indian Khasias killed a Bangladeshi at Barochhara in India on Thursday evening. The victim was M Abul Hasem, 40, from Azimpur at Mohanganj in Netrakona. BGB Battalion 8 officials said that Hasem had married an Indian woman of Barochhara eight years ago and he used to visit his in-laws’ through the Tahirpur border. He went to his in-laws’ on June […]

Departure of Malaysia bound workers would be delayed further as the Malaysian authorities asked for workers’ photographs and fingerprints afresh. Malaysian officials asked for 3R size photographs of workers with blue backgrounds and fresh fingerprint with high resolution at end of May, when a technical team led by Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training director general Begum Shamsun Nahar visited […]

Applications have been filed for the legalisation of more than half of around 0.15 million illegal household gas connections by the Thursday deadline set by Petrobangla. Petrobangla (Bangladesh Oil, Gas & Mineral Corporation) chairman Hossain Monsur said that legal action would be taken against those who did not apply by the deadline. The agency announced the deadline at a press […]

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led opposition alliance will hold countrywide demonstrations today demanding the reinstatement of the election-time, non-party caretaker government. The demonstrations were also meant to push for the withdrawal of false cases against leaders and activists of the BNP-led alliance and their release from jail. The demonstrations will be organized in all upazila and thana headquarters. In the capital, […]

Customs authorities arrested an inbound passenger at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport early Friday in illegal possession of a huge amount of Indian currencies. Akhter Kamal, 30, from Cox’s Bazar, was arrested about 12:30am when he was carrying Indian Rs 54,82,000, Kazi Iraj Ishtiak, an assistant commissioner of the airport customs, said. Kamal was coming from Karachi with a stopover at […]

The Bangladesh navy on Friday observed the World Hydrography Day aimed at maintaining quality hydrographic services to ensure safe waters for the mariners. This year’s theme was ‘Hydrography-Underpinning the Blue Economy’. Speakers at a seminar in Chittagong Naval base said Bangladesh Navy hydrographic products have always been praised by the international community as mariners felt Bangladesh waterways safe. The seminar […]